richard Thompson
Dream Attic

From the pain conveyed on such works as Marvin Gaye’s Here My Dear, Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love and Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreak, expressin...

Instead of heading into the studio to record a batch of new songs, Richard Thompson hit the road and recorded them in front of a live audience. Backed...

It’s hard to figure the lack of American commercial success for Richard Thompson. I have heard him describe it as, “a bit unlucky” or “laziness on ou...

Oh but this is lovely.Richard Thompson's new album is a live one in every sense of the word. Not for him the stop-gap measure or the contractual oblig...

In September of 2009, CNN's website published an interview with Richard Thompson under the headline "Richard Thompson, the greatest guitarist you've n...

Any Richard Thompson fan will tell you that no matter howgreat his records have been - and 1982's soon-to-be-reissued Shoot Out the Lights, with his t...

At 61, after a lifetime of making music, Richard Thompson still packs a punch. His 14th solo set features new songs recorded live, his virtuoso band s...

A stirring singer, an emotionally involving songwriter, a virtuoso guitarist—Richard Thompson earns his superlatives every time he steps onstage. In t...

Consider this: In 1999, Richard Thompson released Mock Tudor, which is one of his two or three best albums, if not just the best. That’s 32 years into...

There’s a reason that Richard Thompson’s core of devoted fans returns to gig after gig: they know what to expect (consistently dazzling guitar work, b...